Bristol Sausage and Cider Festival arrives this weekend

Bristol Sausage and Cider Festival arrives this weekend

Posted on: 02 Aug 2017

The Bristol Sausage and Cider Festival will take over The Passenger Shed by Temple Meads this Friday and Saturday (4th and 5th August) for a weekend of bangers and lash.

Sausage and Cider Festival

Arriving on the weekend sandwiched between UpFest, Europe’s biggest street art festival, and the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta, which annually provides one of the city’s most iconic images of its skyline, is a gathering arguably more quintessentially Bristolian than both of these put together.

 

Taking over the Passenger Shed this Friday and Saturday is the Bristol Sausage and Cider Festival, an event so deeply rooted in the traditions of the West Country that it would make The Wurzels look like a touring industrial techno outfit from Berlin.

 

Joking aside, the coming weekend would have represented something akin to heaven for Adge Cutler and co, with the larders at The Passenger Shed stocked with enough of the apple nectar to pickle a small Somerset village. Ice-cold ciders will be served by producers coming from near and far, including those from West Country legends like Roger Wilkins and the whacky Somerset-based Westcroft’s Janet’s Jungle Juice along with bottled sparkling ciders.

Sausage and Cider Festival

As for the bangers, artisan makers will be cooking and selling their local meaty sausages - and there will also be vegetarian food available. Hot dogs start at £3.50.

 

Local bands performing include the extremely danceable Bath-based Maitree Express, rowdy Bristol band The Lounge Cat Ideals and folk-fuelled jazz from the Bristol-based Rin Tins.

 

Tickets are available online or on the door.  Sessions run from 6pm to 11pm on Friday 4th August, noon to 5pm and 6pm to 11pm on Saturday 5th August. Tickets for each session sold separately.

 

Advance tickets to The Bristol Cider Festival are £6 and are available here.


Article by:

Sam Mason-Jones

An ardent Geordie minus the accent, Sam seemingly strove to get as far away from the Toon as possible, as soon as university beckoned. Three undergraduate years at UoB were more than ample time for Bristol (as it inevitably does) to get under his skin, and so here he remains: reporting, as Assistant Editor, on the cultural happenings which so infatuated him with the city. Catch him at sam@365bristol.com.